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BY E. B. MURKAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7. 1882 VHT mrT? vir -T4. T y-v -v 18 BaniBjH HMM. ?cr OF THE MOST FEARFUL BTBl'?OLES OF THE WAK. r il lift- Bunuel limit, nf Gen. Stenhtn ?) Itt* Stuff' '" L harli finn Weekly yura. It was near the close of September, ?ttl The Western Army, after the i r?e'retreat before Cien. Sherman and Je ,ieee of Atlanta, was resting for a \ tv day? near Palmetto, Cia. Gen. John too bad recently been removed and Gen. Hood bad assumed command of the frmy Thc army after this long retreat jlned ?-ucn dispirited. About the 20th ofgeptciuber it was reviewed by Prcai Jent l)avis and Gen. Hood. Some of ?h? troops cheered the President with fntliusia-iii, but others cried, "(Jive us ??en Johnston! Give us (ion. John t0"'jw ?en. Hood's corps commanders ?rere Lieutenant-Generals Cheatham, Stewart ond S. 1>. Lee, upon whose stall' 1 had the honor of an appointment, rjen lac's division commanders were Ujjor-Generals Johnson, Clayton and Stephenson. The anny was now about ta change its tactics. Instead of the de tenMve it wa? about to assume the often . ?ive- ?ostoad cf the long retreats it had tea'accustomed io make it was now ?h?ut to make A FOIttVARD MOVEMENT. On the 29lb of September Lee's corps croped the Chattahoochee liiver, and began thc inarch towards the Tennessee. In order that my story be not too long, I shall have to omit many minute details of the umrch. We marched day after day through rain and mud, and continued until we reached the Tennessee River. We wv but little of the enemy during the march, except nt Resaca, and about lis miles beyond that place a Hevere skirmish took place. Only two brigades of Gen. Johuson s division were engiiged in this. About the 21st of October tho army reached Gadsden, Alabama, where clothes ami shoes were issued to the men. By this time, too, a great change-in its condition had taken place. The men vere in tine spirits and anxious to move forward. On the 2*Jth the corps reached the Tennessee River near Florence, Ala bama. Gen. Lee immediately proceeded to cross. Tlie river here is very wide, ?nd Florence was occupied by about l.W) Federal cavalry. By means of pontoon boats two bridges were first thrown across, and it was a beautiful .ight to see each little boat with its quad of men advancing in lino of hattie on the water under the cover of several batteries of artillery. As soon aa the troops landed they charged ami drove the enemy from Florence. The 1st of November found the whole corps across the Tennessee and in position beyond Floreuce. We remained here nea:ly three weeks. On the 20ih of November, the other two corps having crossed the river, the whole army was again in mo tion, moving towards Columbia, Tennes see, Lee's Corps in advance. We arrived in front of Columbia on the evening of November 2Glh. The enemy were here in strung force under the command of Gens. Thomas and Schofield. Their pickets were at once driven in and we remained in the vicinity nearly two days. On the night of the 27th they evacuated their works in Columbia, crossed Duck River and entrenched themselves on the other side across the pike road leading to Franklin. It waa the purpose of Gen. Hood to attack them before they reached Nashville. With this end in view, Gens. Cheatham and Stewart with their corps and one division of Lee's corps were directed to cross Duck Uiver above Columbia, get in their rear and make the attack, whilst Gen. Lee with his two divisions of infantry tod all the artillery should operate in their front. Thereon tho 28th of No vember occurred perhaps one of the most TERRIBLE ARTILLERY DUELS of the war. From early morn until late il the evening the air resounded with the thunder of artillery, and the roar of musketry could be heard for miles and silts around, wtiile the whole sky seemed lighted up from the ilashea of thc burst ing bombs. Among tho killed that day ?" the brave Col. Beckham, chief of artillery in Lee's Corps. A braver man than he never drew a sword in defence of hit country. buring tba fight Gen. Lee sent me ??th s message to Col. Beckham. I .wnd him standing on a large flat rock, sear his guns. Ho was nobly cheering au men whilst solid shot and shrieking wells were bursting aud tearing around ?m. But there he stood, firm as the wk ilBelf. it was the last message he ?cr received. In less than half an hour ??as killed. -seo. Hood's programme here, though J? ?b!y plauned, failod in execution the - enemy succeeded in passing around W portion of the army* in their rear, JW thus made their escape. Early on "M morning of the 80th Gen. Lee dis ?Teied that they had left his frout at loiumbia. He immediately crosssd "?? Uiver and moved after them to "^Franklin. The distance from Co T"N? io Franklin is about twenty-four He arrived in front of the place half-paat 4 o'clock p. m. Gens, watham and Stewart had formed their "?JW Jgw now advancing to the at I ? ^'P9! with the exception of jwnion s division, was held in reserve. j?*??1? was the left, Stewart the right. A ?n% "-Vely evening in November. *8?tle breeze lightly fanned the air, ?2? 8M| with its departing beams, [v , M t0 'inger upon the stern faces of I ?j ^Reir pressing column. Forward "??Hl onward, it steadily pressed, ?2?? *ud nearer to the breastworks ""^wein. The Federals behind their **??tood like * WOUNDED TIUER AT BAY. P"*88^, the whole line steady ^?P*f?d?. A wreath of smoke, a ifT ^me and ttt? of thousands hPjw burst from the Federal y; **. column recoiled before this STV7' wuhering fire as the missiles of Hs fc,,!w?pt through their ranks. It tWn. ?or ft moment. Quickly they -T^ihel, gaping ranks and hurriedly Ba?t* the l?rible conflict. Again ^.^[??ere they driven back before ^ferous fire that met them. ??'*u? again they rushed to the (U.VWo-again and atmhr tb*v used SSfti*-, .u wm ?ow d?"*? *nd y?7| division of Lee's corps was Wa? II l.he 8UPPort of Cheatham. ?ia of/, 1 lhat ^uxd bb heard amid the tothe eh ^"gallant division rushed vt ih7*rge,V,.?weeP"0K everything be O'.?lie Redirais fought like '?ttrW ,n.K and W?ll. They piled itoo^,DIlwlth Confederate dead. But WIM. HS now driven to madness *W Ilk* frou>' continued fire Thc; asan^sf * norricane, aud nothing could A^?^ble an onset. The Fader? S ffiff*?1 from their works. Then, "nWfi!:8 \,ne? fr?m right to left, the Hat fl???7,f!'*,e raRed. Now the inces ""rtnrrm .of thousands of guns, the fii^fW-d nf smoke and the coif ?io? JW ?r thunder, as it nilled from ?Wlijt.^?. -added tenfold horror to * *. Thus for tan long hours these JCH0W8 loug?t and bnrelv Leid rm: SATTLE WAS oyiiit. .T"e last gun sounded on the tool nicht air. The dead in silence luv, and the stars kept watch over the dismal scene. I he tejierais departed before the dawn of day, leaving their dead and dvine just where they fell. The morning's sun rose bright and clear, but, oh ! what a Bight. Sun never -ose on a scene so sad Everywhere lay the gallant dead, like" autumnal leaves, upon the blood stained held, fbe ground was strewn with dead and dying, and Ihe pleading cries for water caine from many parching lips federals and Confederates were piled together, and across each other as they tel in the hand to hand struggle. Some fell in the trendies and some vi e dvina on thc breastworks. Some wer on their lace-, and some, still in death, were vet clasping their guns, the muzzles pointing to thc toe. Hut, I turn nwnv from this sickening scene. Lee's corps remained on the battlefield until about 2 o'clock p. rc , when the dead having been buried and tho wound ed cared for wc resumed the march, and marched four miles in the direction of Nashville. Wo arrived in front of Nash ville on the evening of December 2 and went into position lhere, (.'bentham'a corps occupied the right, Stewart's the left and Lee's the centre. Nothing of much importance occurred for two weeks except almost daily skirmishes with th? Federal pickets. The weather had be come very cold, everything was frozen up, and the ground covered with sleet. Ou the 15th of December, the enemy having been heavily reiuforced made an attack on holli flanks, hut they were re pulsed with heavy loss. Karly on the morning of the 16th the attack was re newed with vigor along the whole line, accompanied willi a heavy artillery fire! They seemed especially to have concen trated their artillery upon Lee's corps. From ?? o'clock until nearly 12 m. this terrible cannonading continued, while the ground was literally ploughed with shot and tlie air filled with the hissing, bursting shells. When this cannonading partially ceased they made charge after charge upon his line, but were repulsed every time with great slaughter.? Thus the battle raged in Lee's front until be tween .'I and 4 o'clock p. m. Thc firing in hts front at this time had almost ceased, when suddenly one divis ion of Stewart's Corps having given way, the Federals, as countless as the stars, came ouring in, and our men to the left began rushing to the rear in the greatest confusion. Officers did all in their power to rally them, but all to no purpose. As Lee's Corps was the first to cross the Tennessee HO it devolved upon it to cover the retreat. Although it moved in some Jisorder when about to be flanked by die enemy, yet it did not at any time ose its organization, and before "it was iver did good fighting and captured nany prisoners. Never was Federal :avalry so daring, and never did they try to hard to turn a retreat into a rout. Never before during the war were Fed ;rals and Confederates so mixed up. 1'hey made charge after charge upon Lee's line. On the 17th, in a desperate marge near Franklin, Gen. Lee was severely wounded, and the command levolved upon Gen. Stephenson, one of ni j division commanders. Thc Federals iontinued the pursuit until Hood's army recrossed tho Tennessee, when it marched lo Tupelo, Mississippi. Thus the campaign ended. Not that it was not ably and skillfully planned, not that the Western Army was not com poned of good material, for there were no braver men, as thc battles around Atlanta and Franklin will show. Hut overpowering numbers, the same that induced Gen. Lee, in Virginia, to sur render, caused the Tennessee campaign to come to naught. Cause of Malaria. The seventh volume of the Public Health Association reports contains among o'ber matters of interest to sani tarians several papers on malaria, treat ing it from various and conflicting points of view, but adding nothing solid to our knowledge of ibis "standing reproach to science.1' The theory is proposed in one paper that there is no marsh malaria, as at present understood, but that the phe nomena attributed to it result primarily from prolonged exposure to the sun, to gether with humidity of atmosphere, acting upon the nerves. In a word, there ?H no miasm, but a certain derange ment of the nervous system. This resem bles a doctrine broached some years ago, that malaria results from the operation of a peculiar impouderable force, rather than a material substance, microscopic or otherwise. The evidence is common ly understood to associate the cause of malarial disense with vegetable decay, moisture, and a certain grade of temper ature. Yet one of the articles in the volume mentioned maintains tho opinion that local causes are insufficient to ac count for its causation, while another holds that there is no cause or ?et of causes that "uniformly produce malaria." It will be recalled that Dr. W. Ii. Car penter pronunces the researches of Dre. Tommasi, Crudell and Klebs in this field of science "of the highest practical im portance," and thinks their work seems "likely to demonstrate that marsh mala ria derive their potency from organic germs-an idea that singularly harmon- j izes with the periodicity which is the ( special character of tho varied form of disease they induce." If this germ theory be the correct one, then it would be easv to explain the period intervening between attacks as the period oaring which a generation of germs within the body of the patient develops to maturity. Dr. Mudd, however, was of opinion that this development took place, not in the body, but in the filth, effluvia, Ac., of the body, and that this, when thus fermented, constituted the active poison. It ia not a "little remarkable, consider ing the general interest of the subject, that science lags still so far behind in the study of this malady. An article upon the diseases of Texas cattle points to the conclusion that the animals are, as a rule, healthy in their native prairies. Obser vers on trichina? concur in the view that the parasite is associated with the food supply of the bog, and that large areas of country are exempt. They agree also ?Wo? .ll nnrkdhnnldbeoroDerly inspected before sa'le, and the inspection shou.d ex tend to all meat intended to be eaten The most alarming portion of the ifcporj, however, is a statement that there are some reasons for supposing that oleomar garine, even when rendered at one hun dred and twenty degrees may shelter a supply of live bacilli for the lover of pure country butter to consume. - Do you know how to into people's heads? Come late to a concert ir, a pair of thick boots. There is something soft ?nd tender in (he fr.? of H single snow flake, hut l alwa?? romiods us to look after our bot tie of Dr. Hull's Cough ?y/up,-*T J*1 stand-by in tho days ot ?>g"g Colds,-for we have always found it re liable. TILDKN'S REVIVAL. Tho Candidat* of 1H7? Torn? up Heady for Ooilin;;. n, I, .. ALBANY, N. Y., March 28-Di* patches hence to the Times Bay : Reporta have reacher] Albany with the last few days that fall upon ?lie Democratic ear like a voice front the lomb. The flutter? lng among the parly leader? who have heard the welcome or unwelcome new* is an indication of joy or trepidation that will seize upon the rank and Gie of the democracy when Hie facts become more generally known. The tidings are that Samuel J. Tilden, the whit.un sage of Gramercy park, or more recently known as the "Hermit of Greystone," has got a new lease of life, and proposes to re-enter the political arena. Gentlemen who have visited Greystone during thc last month are impressed and delighted at the marked and rapid improvement in Mr. Tilden's bodily condition and gener al health. They say his voice is fully restored and is now clear and firm. His oyo is brilliant and penetrating, his, nerves are steady, his carriage erect and ! Iiis tread almost martial in its evenness and solidity. His menial vig-.r, which ulways remained unimpaired even in his worst bodily estate, now acts harmoni ously with restored physical strength and recuperated energy and nervous power. In a word he appears tobe and thinks he is about entering upon that "Indian bum mer" of life which followed the severe prostralion of his friend, Charles O'Con nor, and which has been vouchsafed toso many distinguished men ol present aud past generations. In fact he attributes his restoration to health in great part j his following the example of 0'Co...ior, who, after escaping from the jaws of death, dismissed his doctors, "threw physic to the doge,'' and, retiring from the duties and cares of the world, lived a regulur methodical life and allowed na ture to recuperate. Mr. Tilden fully understood what ho waa about when be retired to his country home at Greystone and ni lowed it to be given out that lie waa no longer in thc field of politic- and might not much longer be in the lend of the living. He desired to escape ior a time from politicians, and b<> succeeded. Many of them were foolish enough to interpret him literally as they did at Cincinnati. These aro the men who have been running around tching every body for the last eight months that "Tilden was no longera factor in pol? tica ;" that he was "little better than a corpse, and would never be heard of any more." Some of them really believed it, but with more the "wish was father to the thought." The hermit of Greystone heard their vences through his telephone, and was grieved to detect among thc jubilant the tones of sumo who h^d al ways professed to bo his warmest, friend: but he allowed the jabber io go on, while b? smiled and regained his health. How quick these fellows will change theil tone and swear they never said so wher they behold Sammy's head looming uj igain above the political horizon ! Tbej will find that the surviving "factors" o the Democratic party have a liveb :orpse on their bauds when the nex campaign opeuH. IT HAS BEEN CAREFULLY I'LA NN Kl?. A few of Mr. Tilden's intimate friend lave understood the situation all tin vhile, and have known thc motives am injects of his retirement, but the publi ;enerally have accepted thc reports o loliticians as true, and have como ti egard thc "sage of Gramercy park" as i lefunct politician and almost a deni nan, and yet they have had some mis ;ivings about it when they read in lin lewsoapcrs that Mr. Tilden waa spend ng $40,001) on a banquet hall in tin iramercy park residence. Such extrav gance appeared to the common mini inca'.led for in the corpse of a bachcloi nd not in accordance with the usua irudcnce and foresight of Mr. Tilden i ie was so near his end ?us reported. Hu he public will learn in due time that th 40,000 dining room rras destined fo. th uture use of its owner and his friendr md not for the mourners at his funeral Ut frescoed ceilings are yet to ecb ounds of revelry by night and mny b o resounds with the cheers of futur democratic triumphs. There aro shrewi loliticians who believe thut the Gramere; 'ark mansion will be the real headquar ers of the national Democratic party ii he campaign of 1S84. Mr. Henry Til len, a brother of Samuel J., has been ii Vlbany the last two days, and fully con irma the reports of the great improve neut in his brother's health, although hi s reticent about his future plans am prospects. But Samuel wna never in th labit of pouring into the ears of Uenr; lis political secrets aod private schemes lie reserves these for his spccinl friend md admirers in the world of politic! who are nincerely devoted to his persona brtune. He is reported to have had .ecent accession to this select circle i he person of Roscoe Conkliug. Some hing in the nature of an alliance offen live and defensive is said to have bee ately contracted between those two dh mnnintcd statesmen. It is well know hat Mr. Conkling was in favor of coun ng Tilden into oflice in 1876, on tb 'round, ns he claimed, that it would ult nutely be for the best interest and pe nanent success of the Republican part; What he was willing to do in 1870 fi [tepublicanism, he is said to be anxioi o do now for revenge. Mr. Tilde dndly recepta him na an ally withot ?crutinizing his motives. If succe :rowns the alliance, Conkling will m lis reward. In any event, it can not 1 eas than he has a right to expect fro lis own party in the future. WHY IIB BEAfPEARS. Mr. Tilden is reported to have be? ed to entertain the idea of re-cnterir he political a'ena not more by his it proved health than by his great disgu it seeing the Democratic party frill ?way the opportunity and privilce rained in the tidal wave triumph otu November. It grieves him to behold t ihortsightedness of Democratic poll cians who are running the party and t pettiness of motives that actuate thei He and his friends see need of an exr riencedand level-headed pilot to gra the helm before the Democratic ship g? much nearer the whirlpool of the pre jential campaign. It is with some reit ?ance that he consents to take the he again, but if his country, or the Den "?",;" ,"i. ;=K te corsiders the SSJ thing, dasnandsit, ha will ?bey. T automnal period of bis life was one trials, and was crowned with great po leal disappointment, but his friends j ?eve tb? wrongs will yet be right und that the "Indian summer, on wh be I.> now entering with rejuvena viiror, is destined to be a period of umph, and that his life w II ba roam out in "peace, contentment and glor - Five men leaned up against the for a ninht-cap. One drank whiskey SmsaWedSor ordered it; two otb drank "hot Scotch because they coule ilecpawink without it; a fourth dr. brandy for his cholera morbus, and fifih man drank whiskey bemuse hell it. And lhere were only four liars in crowd. THE OBLIGATION OF AN OATH. A HIRII Irrimie lletween liigerntoll ?titi Merrick. WASHIN?HIX, Mardi 2d -In the Star route trial to day, Hiter considerable time had been spent upon a number ot unim portant witnesses, Stepheu \V. Dorney took the stand. The clerk wai about to administer th.- usual oath, when Merrick rose and asked permission from the Court to question tl.e wittie" regarding his be liet in its binding ?"..ree. Tlie request wan granted and Merrick inquired it the witness regarded the ..:tUi as binding upon his conscience, lie (fiercely shak ing hi- finger a*. Merrick answered that llie oath was as binding upon him ?is upon Merrick, ll.- regarded it as binding upon (na conscience. Merrick asked if in tak ing tin- oath tho witness had in mind the effect of a failure t<? observe il upon his tuture state of regard and punishment. Instantly Ingersoll wa- upon his feet. "I object." MI down," said he to Mr. Dorsey, and then proceeded to pour out an impassioned address. Ile objected to thc perpetration of this monstrosity of the dark age*. 'I he coun try Im- passed that IM/UII in nearly every r?late. in every civilized State every man ras allowed tu testifv Whether he believed ? :t future punishment and a personal (iod or not. Here was one d?tendant in the case. The Government hail taunted him for a year for not taking the bland, and when he came lure they sought lo pre vent his test i mon v because he did not be lieve in their Jehovah, lie admitted that in many States a gentleman could not testify, that Humboldt, who knew more than all the State, would not have been allowed to testify if his own brother had been murdered before his eves; so with Tyndall ami with Huxley. 'Butin those States, said Ingersoll, with extreme bitterness, a man who beat his wife could go upon the stand and testify. Ho did not believe that his Honor would allow BUCII a procedure. The last time he had tern it tried was before Judge Drummond al Chicago, and the Judge said that llie examination concerned matters of this world. The witness was to testify about what he knew lier.-. Merrick replied that the religion of nineteen centuries needed no defence from him. He was acting under the rules of law. Ho referred to Ingersoll's charge that the Government did not wish Dorsey to testify, and declared that it was un true. What ne did desire was thal the Court and jury might know what weight to attach to his testimony when he invo ked the Supreme Being.' Witnesses were under obligations of personal honor and integrity, but in addition they had the obligation that they had invoked the jus lice of Heaven and the wrath of men if they falsified, and tin- Court ami jury should have tho witness' opinion ot the weight ?if that obligation, lie wanted tu know if in taking the oath ho felt that his conscience was involved and that there was an obligation to tell the truth. He read from Greenleaf in -upport of his position. luger ?ol I said that if there was anoth er world and ho hail acted badly in this he would expect to fare badly there, and so he would expect to fare well if he act od weil iicre. Ho regalded truth as thc most sacred of all obligations. If he was on the stand ami all lie held most denr was at stake, still would ho be com pelled to express his belief and say that lie did not believe in a personal Diety ; and lhere were many excellent, generous people of thal belief. In the dark ages the people were so given lo lying that nobody was expected to teil thc trutli unless they were scared The gentleman (Merrick) bad quoted lan*. Laws wer? not always right. .Many people believet] many laws to bo wrong as there ari many laws that aro not right. They had such laws under llioold Inquisition will its thumbscrews and racks and fires am other hideous monstrosities. They har laws against witches and wizzards in day; when they dug up babies' corpses uni made ointment of them, natl in som? States there were still law s that barred i man from tolling the liiitb because lu did not believe as sonic other niati o some holy bonk, and this, ton, after Dar win had lived and died. There used ti bc a law to make aman caleb a poo negro woman with her child in her arm and give her back to the bloodhounds am Indi. He hoped that the Court would nc sntertnin the proposition. The Court said that with men not i official position it was a private matte is to what they thought of the law. 1 hey undertook to violate it they wer .esponsible. But a judge was not at lit srty to say that he liked this law and dh iked that. That he would admiuiste his one and ignore that. They were no nado by thc Court, and it could onl ipply them. As to the theological que? ion discussed ut such length tho Com vould not go into that, it was unnecef lary. The Act of March IG, 1S78, mad he defendant a witness, and that settli hat point. So then the only question c .ompelcncy was whether Dorsey was lefendant. When a new law was intro laced, and without limitation said "th lefendnnt shall be a witness," no ollie .ompetency was required. The othe new thc Court would not pass upon. 1 would not go into tiie theological view ur jeyond the law of 1878. Mr. Merrick inquired what was tli necessity for swearing the witness undi ?his view. The Court replied, so that he may I punished for perjury, if ho does not te truth. Mr. Merrick acknowledged that tl inswer was sufficient. He then went c Lo disavow any intention of preventii the witness from testifying. Thc Go ?rnment was desirous that he should te Li fy. Court : Administer the oath. Ingersoll : He may swear or ailinn. Witness : Oh, I had justas soon swen The oath was then administered, ai Ingersoll began the examination. A MAN WHO HAS HAI? NI> WIVES.-An old gentleman residing Simmons' Gap, Ga., hos nbout as wit) varied and full an experience of domesti ity as any man since the days ol King A justus IL, of Toland. This happy ma who has attained the patriarchal age eighty years, has had the extremo felici of being married nine times, and it is I ninth wife who is at pre-eiit solacing we can'tsay his declining years, becai thors ii no knowing what are thc j?ote t'ialities of a man who has displayed su hardihood-but who is, at any rate, t present mistress of Simmons' Gap. S in wives alone has this fino old gentlem been well and extensively endowi Fifty-three persons are entitled to c him "papa." and at a recent family gat ering 300 of his decendants were prese HlMHUG?ED AnAlN.-I saw so mc said about the merits of Hop Bitte and my wife who was always doctorii and never well, teased me so urgently get her some, I concluded to behumbt ged ngain ; and I am glad I did, foi less than two months use of the Mitti my wife was cured, ami she has remaii no for eighteen months since. I 1 such humbugging.-H. T., St. Paul Pi on err Pren. Hy DalloOD to tho Tolo. Already there is talk about fut i out another Arctic expedition. The widows of the unfortunate men who lost their liv? s in (hat ilroad zone of almost eternal night north of Siberia are still weeping, but the faihiro of the Jeannette expedi tion seems to have thc effect of attracting the attention of more adventurous souls to this problem, which j-i certain to be i solved, no ma'ter how many lives ??re sacrificed in unsuccessful attempts. Th?' child will work at his new toy until he gets ?' open ju order to see what is inside of it, and men want lo know what there : i- at the Tole. I> there asign post mark- j ed "North role?" a hole such as that j lunatic Sy ms argued about fora life lime? an open sea of warm water, with iuhabi- | ted islands, or -what ? L'util thu mystery t is solved and some man has put up his little Hag at the place where the Pole j ?lughl to be if it isn't, in token nf victory ( over mittlre, this struggle will go uti. I The accounts given in tho testimony re- { cetitly taken in Washington, of* the j months of cold, hunger nm! danger, of miraculous escapes and blood-curdling scenes, ul Hie weird terror which natur?' throws about the Arc.ic regions, have served ouly to incite other adventurers to teuipi Providence after the same fashion. It is useless lo argue that even if the Pole is reached no useful work will have been done, and that even if the long-sought northwest passage is discovered it trill he useless to commerce ?rn account of ita great dangers. The loy must be opened if it can be ?lone. There exista, a tew weeks'journey Ironi our own land, an unknown tract of country about c'UO miles in diameter. We have tried to cross it and have not succeeded. Nothing fur ther need bo said in reply lo those who ask. "Why should we start another Arctic Expedition !" In this next expedition balloons are likely to play au important part. The great aim with Arctic explorers is to get t<? thc Pole, no matter by what uieans. The word danger appears to have no ex istence in their vocabularies. From Spitzbergen lo thc Pole could be accom plished in a week with reindeers if the road was over smooth ice or snow. Cold doi s not prevent men from getting to the Pole, but the physical configuration of the fringing zone of the Arctic regions. Arctic navigators are stopped not by a frozen wea, hut by a combination of gla ciers, frozen hays and fiords. Thc moun tains of that region are grand, but it takes days to go a few miles in such a country. Attempts of two kiuds have been made lo scale this icy barrier. Ships have sailed northward, threading a dan gerous course between floating icebergs : in summer arid become fast-bound in winter. The second method, usually i adopted as supplementary to the first, is that ol dragging sledges ?iver the moun tains. Commander Markham, an Englishman who attempted this work on an extensive scale, achieved about one mile a ?lay, and the lab >r was nearly fa tal to his men. Balloons promise to solve the problem. With it fair wind - and winds are very stead., in auch parts ol' the Arctic regions ns ?rave been ex plored-it would be but a matter of a day or two to reach the Pole from one of the advanced points within the Arctic circle. The chief dangers ?if such an expedi tion are, (1) the variability of the wind ; (2) thc risk of being blown nut lo sea; . ('.i? the helplessness of tho aeronaut in case of disaster, for no balloon can carry i boats, sledges, or even n large stock of ? food, and (4) the danger of entering i some aerial whirl pool out of which the i ha', loon would never emerge. Solong as i it remained in the air it would circle I nround thc Pole, au unpleasant position for explorers without food or fuel and tho thermometer nt 100 degrees below zero. : These are positive dangora ; but not many i years will elapse before the experiment of i balloons in the Arctic regions will be i undertaken, and surely the chances would ; be no worse by balloon than by open i boats-to which mont Arctic explorers i are reduced sooner it later.-Charleston i Sum?an Xeirs. i Only With (icntlcnioii. A few evenings ago. while half a dozen gentlemen were standing at tho bar of one of the most fashionable up town sa loons in Washington, a well-dressed gtiod- , looking stranger entered the room and walked straight up tu the bar, und ad dressed the bar keeper in language like J th?' following : ".Stranger, I nm in a very, very bad condition. I want a drink ; I must have a drink, but I am compelled to niaLu tho humiliating statement that I am unable nt present to pay for it. If you will bo kind enough to favor me in my extremity you shnll be paid, sir." "We don't keep whiskey to give nway here,'' wns the blunt reply of the bar keeper. The stranger begged, but the bar kroner was inexorable and even rude. The mild-mannered stranger turned to thc gentlemen who had been witnesses to the conversation and said : ' Gentlemen, you are all strangers to me, but would one of you bo kind enough to loan me the prh'e of a drink? I will pay it back." One of the party addressed handed the stranger 15 cents. lie stopped up to the bar and said, "Now can I have a drink ?" "Yes," said the bar keeper, "anybody can get n drink for the money here?" "I thought so," said the stranger. Tho bottle of "red licker" was placed on the bar; the strnnger filled his glass liberally. "A little bitters in there, if you please," said the stranger. Then, wnen the bitters was furnished, ho asked for a large glass of water, which was also set up. The stranger drank bis beverage and then turned lo the man who bad loaned him the money and said : "Stranger, I make it a point of honor to pay borrowed money before I pay whisky bills; here is your 15 cenU; I am greatly obliged for the loan," and so saying bo walked out. The dazed bar keeper, seeing that he waa sold, and that the laugh was on him, ran to the door and called to the man io come back. The stranger promptly returned and inquired, "?Vhat do you want?" The bar-keeper replied, "That was a cute trick you played, and I own up that you caught me. The drinks nre on me. What will you take ?" " Excuse me, sir," replied the stranger, "I drink only with gentlemen; I cannot drink with you." and the mysterious stranger walked away, leaving the bar-tender to wonder whether it would not have been better to give a stranger one drink than to be caught by a trick and have to "set 'cm up" to a whole crowd. "The eagle in one house," says Ores set, "is the fool in another." Certainly. The man who talks the loudest in tho railroad car, and contradicts everybody at the hotel table, sets the dioner table and washes the baby at home. - A fashion paper says: "Crinoline is coming to the front again." Ho I that shows bow little we know about these things. We thought it went all around. However, the fact that it is "coming lo the front again" shows that it was "not lost, but gone behind." Cotton Seed OH. The following dialogue recently took l-laec between inc enterprising editor of thc Athens itta.i Manner, who is devot ing a good deal of hi* paper In farm top. io. nnd one of the largest mid most MIC coastal planters in the State : "Why do you not urge upon the farmers of the country the importance of extracting the oil froni their cotton seed'.'" asked Hon. Janies Mr Smith, thc mammoth planter of Oglethorpe, of us yesterday. Wc replied by asking Colonel Smith to tell us all be knew in regard to the ?uniter. "You can get fuller information on this subject from Professor White than any one else, for he ha? analyzed seed both before ami after extracting thc oil and can tell you the exact value of each. ! He has clearly demonstrated, however, thal both for teed or fertilizer, the cotton seed is worth more alter extracting tile oil than before. Actual experiment, too, ? by practical fanners, has proved the Pro fessor to he correct. I hail rather have one hundred pounds of cotton seed meal 1 under a crop of any kimi limn thu best . ammnniated guano thai you can hue, lt i ia just as valuable as a fertilizer, yet don't fire the crop so badly during a drought. This may look like a surprising state ment, yet, nevertheless, it is true. You can take the meal nnd sprinkle it just ns thin as you would guano, and it is fully ; as valuable, pound for pound, as the 1 highest brand*. Why, we Southern tar- I mers have lost n fortune by not know ing ! this sooner. Here wc have been expend ing millions annually for a commercial fertilizer, and then wasting a much better nrticle right nt home. Let us now inves tigate this matter and see what a farmer's cottonseed arc worth. I have thorough ly informed myself on thc subject and know what I am talking about. A bush cl of cotton seed will yield one-half gal lon of oil, which is worth al wholesale twenty cents. Besides this it turns out twenty-live pounds of meal, and putting this at thc same price of cunno, wc have fifty cents worth ot fertilizer or stock feed. There nrc thirty bushels of seed in every bale of cotton-a clear profit to the farmer of $15, leaving out thc value of thc ?di. So putting cotton at ll cents per pound, you sec the seed brings him in more than a 'hird as much as the lint, upon which crop we have heretofore sole ly depcm' for our money. Cottonseed ure to-du? .orth 3o cents per bushel to the grower, and I believe that in 1 sss than (ive years they will bring 10 or 00 cents. Our people are gelling fast aroused to this new source of wealth, and il won't be many years bc foi e you will seen cotton ??ced oil mill in every neighborhood. Farmers will carry their seed to it the wine ns they now do their com to some grist mill. It will enable us to raise cot ton cheaper, save the money we ure now paying for guano, and al the same lime i restore our worn out lands. I tell you these colton seed oil mills are thc grand est enterprise on this continent, and will be worth more than any other manufac tory wc could build. They arc going to revolutionize the agriculture nf tuc South, lind you know that we farmers badly need a change of sonic kimi." "Can you give ns any estimate as to the cost of one of these mills?" wc ask ed. "Yes; for I have been writing for pri ces, with a view of putting np one my self. To gel a mill in running order will cost about $1,800 ; bul they can and w ill loon be built cheaper. A large compa ny is now at work on these mills, and in tend to manufacturo a small size for farm purposes. I do not know what they will be worth, but they will doubtless bc in reach of all." Mr. Smith is no visionary man, bul a lol id, practical funner, who never endor ses a thing unless bc knows what he is doing. During thc Clement attachment craze he examined into the mutter and informed us ul once that there was not much money in them. But he is enthus ed on the subject of cotton Heed oil milla, mid gives them his unqualified indorse ment. We will investigate this subject further and iee our renders know ali-we can learn about their worth.-Southern Culliva tor. No Snakes in Florida, As the afternoon train on the Florida Transit Railroad Blowcd up to a' water tank where a creek flows out of a dreary cypress swamp and crosses the way, n ?Hinter in high boots and corduroy coat, with a hugo bng swung to his broad -boulders, climbed nut of tho tall gram und bonrded the principal pwenger cnr. lt was Prof. James Bell, thc Smithsonnln Institution's agent. Thc train was full if people, who, for threo hours, had en Inred the innocent babble of two guile less land agents. They had learned from these truthful real estate missionaries that alligators were ns harmless IIB geese, and that there were fewer snakes by far tn Florida 'han in New York City or Philadelphia. The Professor found the ono vacant scat and Hung himself into it. "Good afternoon, Professor." an ac quaintance at the further end of ihe car cried out to him ; "do you have any luck catching snakes these days?" And within five minutes Mr. Bell was answering questions from nearly every occupant ot the car. Were there real ly any snakes in Florida, was it safe to go tlirough tho woods; how big did makes grow in this State ; what sort of makes are common here, etc., etc. Very graciously the Professor answered thom all and soon had betrayed himself into a dissertation upon reptiles generally, till, ?nan absent way, just to illustrate a point he was elucidating, he unbuttoned a ca pacious pocket in the skirt of his coat and drew out au enormous nud newly caught "coach-whip," which he exhibited to a throng of staring and excited people, [ts habits and peculiarities were describ ed, and he laid his subject on the seat and from another pocket drew oula num ber of chicken snakes and water snakes of various kinds. Would they bite ? No. indeed they were harmless. They look kind of "crawly," they are so small. Ile replaced them au unstrapped his game bag. "Hero we have," he ssid, "a beau tiful snake, naturally lame and perfectly harmless, which anybody can play with. And he drew out what is probably the biggest snake ever caught in Florida, nearly eight feet in length. There was a chorus of screams, and I women and children, men even, fled to j the farther end of the car. During the rest of the trip the disconcerted Profess or sat alone, and when, at Gainesville, be roso to leave the train, little girls hid themselves behind their mammas and screamed with fright. "As a traveling showman I do not seem to be a success," said the Professor sadly'to himself as bo strode towards bis lodgings In Oak Hall.-Jacksonville Timct-Union. - "William, my son," says an econom ical mother to ber son, "for mercy's sake don't keep on tramping on and down the floor in that manner, you II wear out your new boots." (He sits down.)- "There you go-sitt".g down I Now you'll ?rear out your new trowsers ! I declare, I nev er saw Bucb a boy." NKWS A Xl) Ol HF.ll TOPICS. An Immense Cattle Snlo Sr. Louis, Mureil 'Ju.- Perhaps tlte largest tiaiisaetion in cattle ever made in this country was e licet ed at Purl Worth, rostas, last Saturday, th? ?ale being ol' 75,000 head ol' lull grown cattle hy Ikard? & Harrold Uro*, to thc Franklyn Land and Ca'tlc Company ?d'New York, composed of Charl) - li. Franklyn, Frank '!. Brown, president of the li.issie Mines ol Colorado, and ll, B. Groom A" Son, of Lexington, Ky., extensive brooders and importers of short horn cattle. The price paid i- kept private, hu! the ligttro< arc understood to he about $25 per head, which won!.i aggregate about $2,0f>\000. An Interesting Relic Daniel l?e se exhibited at thc llnjhter ollice the image ot a human face alluded to in the Academy ol' Science report Tl ursday ni .ruing, hut which was not exhibited liiere, lt was found at a dis tance of lo? lcd below thc surface of thc earth, in a coal minc at Angus, more commonly known ns Conllown, in Dal las County, in September, ISSI. It is about half thc sine ol'lill ordinary humin head, the shapu of the nose, mouth and lorelle.id being almost perice! in forma tion, and evidently was ibo work of human hands and not a mere freak of nature. Th? image bas no pars, lin; back nari of the head from a line run ning parallel with the front of the car being missing;- lift Molur? ( /turn) Itt*,' i y hi\ The Casu of Sergeant Mitton. WASHINGTON, March 20.-Jonathan lt. Bigelow, counsel b>r Sergeant Mason while he wa? on trial before the court martial for shooting at Giiitcatl in the District jail, has bird suit against Mason, his wile Hettie and the banking house of Rigg* Ai Co. for $,1,500, alleged to bc due him lor counsel fees. Bigelow al leges that there is now ?7,"0(? in Rigg? & (.'c's bank lo the credit of Mrs. Mason, the proceeds of thc Mason fnod, which he was instrumental in col lee ti Og, and he asks that she be restrained from with drawing any amount sufficient to injure his cause, lie also declares that the case will soon be heard by the United States Supreme Corni and that he ex poets to secure Mason's release because of lack of jurisdiction on thc part nf thc court martial. How a Little Child's Lifo Was Sa? ed. Last Thursday afternoon a woman, looking from her back window, in the city ol N< hurir, saw in the house oppo site a child hanging from a window sill, but kept from falling by a dog, who had caught the child's dress in its teeth. The woman hail left her baby, IS months old, on the Moor ol' ihe front room play ing with her toys and a little terrier dog that is its constant companion. The mother w as away just three minutes, but when she came back and opened thc door her infant's head, arius ami shoulders were hanging beyond the stone sill of un open wintlow, and near il, with its feel on a chair stood the little dog holding on the dress, looked a mule appeal for liaste ami help, lu au instant she was hy her baby's side and the danger was passed. When Ihe dog had boen relieved of his burden he pranced around the mother and child with a delight thal was almost frantic. Gordon Still a Georgian. ATLANTA,GA., March 2S.- Kx-Scnaior Gordon has addressed to the editors of various journals the following letter con cerning a widely published paragraph emanating from Jacksonville: Dear Sir : The U tter of your corres pondent dalcd Jacksonville, Fla., March 22, is filled w ith misrepresentations, but Would be unworthy ol' notice did il not involve thc interest of others. The base and false insinuations contained in a por tion of his letter have been BU thorough ly disproved and so signally rebuked by thu people of Georgia that I need not re fer lo them. Dis Blatemeut that I am no longer a citizen of Georgia is false. I have never contemplated for one mu nient a change of residence. His state ment thal I had registered at holds as of Florida is false and without the sem blance of an excuse. His statement that I am a candidate for Senator Call's seat or the seal of any one else ia false. On thu contrary, I am devoting my whulo time as a private citizen to my personal interests and ibo development by legiti mate means of the resources of this sec lion. Respectfully yours, J. B. GORDON. War ia tho Mountain*. GREENVILLE, March 2fi.- A party of \ deputy United States marshals, consist ing of James Fisher, John K. Gaze, W. | D. Good and others, left herc yesterday , to execute warrants against moonshiners , in the Saluda Mountains. When in the , neighborhood of Peter Mountain, ono of , thc Saluda range, Hie squad divided and , O. P. Hightower, their guide, after con tinuing some distance willi one portion of the squad, was left in charge of the bug gies in which they were travelling. On thc squad's reassembling ?iightowcr was missing. A shot and cries of distress , liad been heard. This morning it was ascertained that H ?gbtower was shot while walking on Ibo side of the moun tain, tho bullet entering his right sido just above Ibo hip and passing through his body. The latest in formation is that be cannot live many hours. The shoot ing is believed to havo been done by Marion Watson, who is reported to bo the lender of a band of mooushiuers armed and equipped for determined war on all revenue officers and marshals. An overcoat found to-day near the spot where the shooting occurred has been identified as Watson's. Watson's illicit still was raided and had just been removed. Henry Alexander, colored, Hoke Barton and John Summer, moon shiners, were captured by the squad and brought to jail to-day. Hightower is an [>ld moonshiner, against whom cases are docketed in the United States Dislrict Court for trial in August. Ho has re cently turned spy und informer against other moonshiners, seeking perhaps in Lb is way to expiate his own offences, and lias thus incurred their bitter enmity. A person who left Hightower at 1 o'clock to-day says he cannot possibly recover. Have the Railroads any Bights 1 A suit for $10,000 damages against the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail road Company, in which Mrs. Vary Crane was the plaintiO', was tried in the Circuit Court at Kdgefield last week. Mrs. Crane was represented by Messrs. Butler & Simkins and A. S. Tompkins, and the railroad was represented by Messrs. Sheppard Bros. and Mr. O. Bacr. The principal arguments in the case wero made by Senator M. C. Butler ond Lieu tenant-Governor Sheppard. On tho ISth of last December Mrs. Crane, aged 82, and hor son William, aged about 40, attempted to drive over tho railroad crossing at Trenton at the same time that a freight (rain was passing the same {dace on. ihe track. There Was a co'lis ou, and in the collision Mi.'. Crane's boree was killed and her buggy knocked SJ ^ m. i iXJ.. X>V/? ?JO? over mill herselfnnd William thrown out. The damages wore assessed, the horse at SOO, and the buggy at $20, which amounts, together with nn additional sum "f $05, were paid by the secretary of the railroad company, whereupon Mrs. Crane signed a receipt in full for all lier damages. In addition io this the rail? road employed Dr. Wise a highly com petent physician, to attend Mrs." Crane i long a< he thought she needed medi ca! attention, and to send thc bill to the railroad company, which was done. Mrs. Crane afterwards concluded that tho railroad had not paid lier enough, and hence thc ?iiit. Every step in the pro? coed i nus of the case was strongly con? tested hy the able counsel on both sides, and the speeches were hmong tho ablest ever heard in our courthouse. .Indee Hudson charged the jury at great length .s to I lie law points involved in the case, and in the course of his remarks ho said that he boped the jury would not be in? ?lu., ticed by prejudice against the railroad or sympathy for the aged lady. The plaintif!, he said, was a woman it was true, but the railroad was entitled to the -anio consid?r?t inn that she wat. Tho jury retired and, after being out about ?wu ??our.-,, returned a verdict.for Mis. Crane for $500 above thc $175 that she hail already been paid.-f?lytflcftl'Chrow A Question of Jurisdiction. Cou MitiA, March 27.-It is already known thal W. ll. Cash is under bond to appear at this term ol the Sessions Court to stand trial for carrying concealed weapons. Uefore the grand jury had acted to-day on the bill sent to them for tho indictment of Cash Clerk of Court Arthur was served by Marshal Blythe with a writ of habeas corpus emu causa for tho stoppage bf the case and its trans fer to the United States Court. The writ is issued hy J. E. tlagood, clerk of tho United States Circuit Court, und is very long. It contains these words : "The act alleged to boro been committed by W. H. Cash was done in performance of his duties, and whilst also a regular appoint ed and qualified officer ol the United States." The first part of this is a sheer falsehood. Cash wa* not on duty. This is tho vital point of tho case. Tho paper further declares that Cash bas by bis attorney, Samuel W. Moiton, filed a pe tition in tho United States Court praying that cognizance ho taken of his caso by that court, and that it bo removed from tho jurisdiction and control of the Stnte Court. The United StatOH marshal Is commanded to take Cash into custody, iiscerlaiu the causo of capture and arrest and await the action of tho United States Court. Thc marshal is directed to servo a copy ol thc writ on the clerk of tho State Court and demand that he furnish certified copies of all records in Iiis o?lico against W. H. Cash. This writ was turned over to Judge Hudson who now ha.it under advisement. The writ was issued under Section 7.r):t of the Revised Statutes, which provides thnt when there is any prosecution against a United States oiiicer for acts performed in dis chnrgiug his duty that upon a petition filed in the United Stales Circuit Court setting forth the facts aud bnHed upon affidavits thc clerk of that court during thc interval bel ween the sessions shall isMic this writ of habeas corpus CUNI rumo, a duplicate of which must he served on tho clerk of the State Court. Tho cnuse must then he transferred to tho docket of thc United States Court to bc tried at tho next term. The clerk of tho State Court must transfer certified copies of all records, and nil proceedings in tho State Courts nro stayed. Thc question to bo decided is whether to fight this trickery of the Government officers in the United States Court or to disre gard it and ; ; on with the trial without noticing it. The United Stales authori ties construe this writ us imperative, and ns making all subsequent proceeding.-- by tho State Court void. The fight can be made in tho United States Court, the State showing that the facts alleged in tho writ arc false and getting it transfer red by tho United States Couit back to the State Court. It is probable that Judge Hudson will luke this latter course. There ia a general wish, however, that thc effort will be resisted to tho last by tho Statu officers. Attornoy General Miles was notified by telegraph to day nf the issue which had risen. Whatever is done thc question is a grave ou? Tho Handsome Man. Having lately read several articles in your paper concerning beauty, I thought 1 would givo you my views on that sub ject. I am an intenso admirer of beauty, ?spccially in men, women and children. I have learned by experience, however, i li nt handsome people arc not always good people. If I go i uto a storo to pur chase I would much rather bo waited upon by a yiri who is plain or only paas nblv good looking than one who is deci dedly handsome. Some shopgirls are anx ious to please customers, but mnny of them uro not. Marjy of them assume a haugh ty air of indifference, which repels buy ers. It seems to bo expected of women that they shall be handsome, wbilo men can get ?loug well with little or no beau ly ; but when you do meet a handsome man he is twenty limes more conceited than a handsomo womao. A wornanya head isn't turned half BO often by admi ration ns a man's. I have often wonder ed why this is, and haven't*, decided whether it is because if a woman la handsome and attractive sho geta her full slmro of admiration and receives it ns lier due and doesn't concern ber bead much about it, while it lasts; or. becauso Ibero is some element in man a nature which renders him more susceptible to nattery than woman. A lady friend of . m i nu says it is the latter. Sho has been a teacher of both Bexes for many years, ami she ought to know what she is talking about. Of courso there are many hand some men of whom I have no knowledge, but without exceptiou tho handsome men I hnve known bavo been weak, vain and egotistical, and if you were fool enough to put any confidence in them, you found out later, to your sorrow, that your houso was built upon sand. This may not bavo been every one's experience, but it has been mine, and the result is that I distrust all handsomo men and wouldn't marry one under any consideration : but 1 mean to flirt desperately witb every handsomo man of ruy acquaintance, and afterwards laugh at them, to repay them for what they havo made somo girls suffer. J KAN ROSE. P. 8.- The gentleman I am engaged to is homely, or perhaps I shouldn't have written this.-Philadelphia Times. - Wm. Clark, aged'45, an itineraut dentist of New Haven, occupying alone a poorly furnished room, ont his throat on Tuesday morning, and will die. From all that can be lear ried the reason for tbo act was that he bad mado a vow not to drink liquor, and the craving came upon bim so strongly that, rather than endure the agony resulting from restraining hie appetite, he made away with himself. He was highly educated, unmarried, and a man? of floe appear ance and large physique.